FY2023 Board Report

DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL PROJECT SERVICES

Tell the Story FY2023 Board Report

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Tell the Story On the way they were assaulted, robbed of their belongings, and even extorted… They arrive with only what they can carry and without having eaten for days. With this project’s help, we can continue to receive them and provide food, medical care, hygiene items, clothing and shoes allowing them to rest and recover to continue on their journey. - Mexico

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Note: Throughout you will find quote boxes. These are quotes from DC IPS Sisters and come to DC IPS via their grant reporting. Quotes from Sisters provide insight and help give context to their ministries and communities.

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Greeting

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Variety of Ministries

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Mission and Process

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FY2023 by the Numbers

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Major Factors Impacting Sisters

14 Focus - Ukraine 16

DC IPS Stories

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Focus - Empowering Women and Children

20 Focus - Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) 22 Collaborators 24 Communication Initiatives 26 Sisters 30 Staff 31

Looking Ahead

Dear Members of the GAI Board, The following document is the FY23 Board Report for Daughters of Charity International Project Services.

The data in this report is for July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023. The attachments provide the legal basis for maintaining the 501(c)(3) status of the corporation including a list of the international projects managed and funded through DC IPS and a copy of the contract that accompanies each project funding.

The format of the report has been transformed and I must extend my gratitude to the DC IPS Team for this. Every member of the team came to DC IPS after the COVID pandemic, and it is their fresh look at the ministry that you see reflected in this report.

Each page of the report was developed by the team member who manages the activities related to the topic of the page. All the photos and quotes came from our international Sisters as they reported on their activities using the funds they received. The production of the report, including final design and printing, is a donation from Ascension Michigan.

This report is truly a product of effective-love, and with it, we hope to honor the Sisters who design and implement their ministries to decrease human suffering and increase human potential.

Thank you for making all these services possible with your support.

Blessings,

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Variety of Ministries DC IPS Sisters work within communities all over the world and are committed to providing care for those who are impoverished or in peril. This care results in access to necessary resources, improved health, better education, increased equality, or the creation of safe havens from predators and war.

Their ministries vary greatly as do the projects they bring to DC IPS. Projects have included providing a vehicle to a health clinic, drilling a well so an entire village can access clean water, raising funds for food and medicine for refugees and their neighbors, and creating a safe space for learning. The Sisters rely on their communities to direct their efforts toward what is needed most.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. - St. Vincent de Paul

“I lived with the Daughters of Charity for 2 months with other mothers who have children who also live there. We felt like valued people.

We came to understand what it is to be a free woman and listened to; I learned that we have rights and that we must fight for them. Thanks to them, I met God, and I realized that I have never been alone and that God has always been by my side to help me.” - Testimony from Colombia

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Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced Inequalities 12%

Quality Education 15%

No Poverty 13%

Affordable and Clean Energy Zero Hunger 2% Clean Water and 7% Sanitation 7% Climate Action 1% Decent Work and Economic Growth 8% Gender Equality 8%

Good Health and Well-Being 27%

FY23 projects addressed 10 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 23 Countries

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Mission and Process

Mission Statement Daughters of Charity International Project Services (DC IPS) was established to help the Sisters in developing countries carry out their mission of service to those who are poor. DC IPS facilitates international funding and other resources, and develops relationships that support Daughters of Charity projects to minimize human suffering and foster sustainable solutions to global poverty at the local level.

DC IPS Process Local Sisters work in their communities and identify needs 6

Sisters seek funding through DC IPS to support their project

DC IPS raises funds through grants and donor gifts

100% of funds are sent to local Sisters who complete the project

Reports are sent to DC IPS outlining project outcomes and spending

Decrease human suffering, increase human potential

Each project requested is tailored to that location and the needs of that community. This approach and the Sisters’ commitment to creating sustainable solutions enables systemic change.

Systemic change aims beyond providing food, shelter, and alleviating immediate needs. It enables people themselves to engage in the identification of the root causes of their poverty and to create strategies, including advocacy, to change those structures which keep them in poverty. This approach is further supported by the Sisters’ remaining within the community to continue assisting those in need over time.

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FY23 by the Numbers People Served: 429,951 Adults 22,680 Children

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new project applications received representing 32 countries

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projects funded representing 25 countries

112

projects evaluated representing 32 countries

Project Funding Sources

19%

Project-specific gifts

44%

Grant awards

20% Sponsor donation

17% General gifts 100% of every gift goes to a Daughters of Charity Project 9

New Applications FY 2019

$2,496,565

FY 2020

$2,017,684

FY 2021

$2,338,789

FY 2022

$2,085,299

FY 2023

$1,757,660

109 104 93 69 48

Dollar amount of new applications Number of new applications

Projects Funded FY 2019

$2,864,267

FY 2020

$2,026,297

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FY 2021

$2,248,779

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FY 2022

$1,983,853

FY 2023

$1,649,322

126

74 67

Total Funding for Fiscal Year Number of projects funded for Fiscal Year 10

Gifts and Grants FY 2019

$2,662,862

FY 2020

$1,582,957

FY 2021

$1,745,925

FY 2022

$1,765,062

FY 2023

$1,388,144

Major Donors FY 2019

12

30

FY 2020

8

34

FY 2021

9

36

FY 2022

20

71

FY 2023

11

60

Number of donors giving $1,000 or greater Number of donors giving $10,000 or greater 11

Major Factors Impacting Sisters Over the past year, the Sisters have pivoted their ministries to respond to the emergent situations that darkened the face of their environment but have not dimmed the passion of their services. Some of the challenges included: rampant inflation, famines, natural disasters, COVID-19, wars, civil violence, and abandoned children.

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While innovating and responding during times of crisis, the Sisters continue to provide services that will move people out of the imprisonments of poverty.

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Ukraine Relief

In February 2022, at the onset of the conflict in Ukraine, DC IPS received a simple email from a Sister located in Ukraine asking if there might be a possibility of help. Many Daughters of Charity ministries were established in the area and needed both support and resources.

Undertaking our first crowd-funding campaign, we posted to social media and sent an email to donors to relay the critical needs of Sisters in Ukraine.

A close collaborator, Ascension Health System, reprinted our email to their many employees. Very soon afterward, Daughters of Charity Ministries followed suit. The donations flooded in.

To date, DC IPS has raised $600,536 specifically for Ukraine emergency relief efforts which have been directed to a multitude of services throughout the country and at the border. An astonishing 570 donor gifts have come in for this project, and we continue to receive and send funds to support their ongoing needs.

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4 Grants

Acquired for Ukraine relief efforts

$

600,536

Raised for a multitude of services

570

Donor gifts received for this project

“It seemed to us that a pandemic was the worst thing that could happen, but then came the war… Our first and basic goal became to ensure the safety of children. We thought about how to build a safe room. We adapted our basement and corridor so that during the time of sirens children could spend time there quite calmly....

We didn’t close the kindergarten for even one day. It was a huge risk, but we wanted to be with them in the most difficult moments.”

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We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your financial support, which has enabled us to help refugees and local people during the ongoing war.

- Ukraine

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DC IPS Stories In April 2023 we initiated a quarterly email called “DC IPS Stories” which will highlights testimonials or information we receive in the grant evaluation reports. This first installment exemplifies the powerful impact of the Sisters’ ministries. Here’s a portion of a wonderfully expressive testimonial from a young woman who traveled from eastern Ukraine and found refuge with our Sisters in Poland.

War destroys EVERYTHING. It kills us physically and crushes us morally. And also, war kills the woman in woman.

What were we like before the war? Beautiful, curious, a little reckless, thoughtful, romantic.

We happily discussed hairstyles, manicures, shopping, children, and men. We had interests in new foods and world politics. We were wives, mothers, friends, daughters. We were ordinary women.

War invaded our lives.

Trampling our lives with dirty soldier’s boots.

Explosion! Rubble! It’s not just material things that have fallen apart, but our lives have crumbled, our dreams, aspirations, ambitions. No one understands what the people feel. In one day, war took everything from us: the place where we were born and raised, where we built our family, where we raised our children. And not only did they take this place, they destroyed it: brick by brick.

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We started to think how to survive. We went down to the cellar (28 people), in the dark, with candlelight. It was cold and wet. The house was shaking from bullets.

Rockets hit shops and neighboring houses.

People under the rubble looted food shops to survive. Food was prepared on a fire under the swish of bullets and rockets. Snow, a real winter, minus 10 degrees in March. Dead bodies everywhere. The dead were deposited in pits under the building. It was impossible to bury them.

For the first few months we lived at the Sisters’ house – recovering from trauma. After 5 months we decided to stay in Poland, because there is no going back; we have nothing to go back to. Now, my children go to school, I have a job. Sisters helped us find a flat, provide us with essentials like the beds and a fridge. We are slowly organizing our life from the beginning.

EMERGENCY Emergency FUNDING Funding DC IPS and Conrad Hilton Fund for Sisters (HFS) align in a shared value of assisting those most in need. HFS Emergency Funding program had a profound impact at the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.

“The project allowed us to respond quickly to the urgent needs of refugees who were deprived of the basic necessities of life ... In the initial phase, we provided refugees with all the basic necessities: food, clothing hygiene items, medicines, blankets, etc. ... Thank you for your selfless and immediate response to this difficult situation. Refugees experience God’s goodness, and we helped them not to lose hope at a difficult time in their lives.” - Ukraine DC IPS is grateful to HFS for the Emergency Funding program. It is unique in the philanthropic arena and is greatly appreciated.

The grant program and supportive HFS staff facilitated rapid assistance arriving in a time of great need.

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Empowering Women and Children

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The joy that this project brings is inexplicable, because so many poor children get their lives back thanks to this school, where they receive moral and spiritual support. - Burundi

Around the globe, Daughters of Charity are addressing issues of inequality, human trafficking, female genital mutilation, disability, homelessness, and poverty. By implementing projects which provide access to care, entrepreneurial training, or a safe haven from brutalities that have become the norm, Sisters are creating change where it is needed most.

The goal is not simply to help women and children survive but to empower them to thrive and to build communities that support those who are most often marginalized and vulnerable.

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For example, 2,600 Clean Birth Kits have been sent to 11 different clinics in Nigeria to help reduce the child/maternal mortality rate. Additionally, the health protocols delivered at eight DC DREAM Center locations have made a dramatic impact in the treatment of HIV and AIDS, as well as malnutrition.

The medical and nutrition protocols used at our DREAM Centers have resulted in miraculous strides and are a testament to the effectiveness of the protocol. In FY23, there was a 0% HIV transmission rate from mother to child in births which is a noteworthy success for the program.

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The children of the school no longer need to go down to the well in the garden to fetch water. They only have to turn on the tap of the overflow basin to have the water so clear.

What a joy! - Madagascar

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Before and after of a child at the DREAM Center in Mozambique. Initially, suffering from malnourishment.

After adhering to the nutrition protocol, he is healthy and thriving!

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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

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Global Concerns

When the physically challenged came to hospital in their wheelchairs, they found the hospital environment accessible for their treatment. - Nigeria

1 in 4

lack basic water services

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1 in 3

lack handwashing amenities

1.8 billion at higher risk of infection

1 in 6

contract new infections during hospital stay

1 in 10

lack toilets or latrines

1 million

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We are working hard towards making the project self-sustainable through planting of economic trees like oranges, palm trees, cocoa plantation, and a cassava farm all of which are now giving us some income for a way forward. - Nigeria

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The improved standards of hygiene have made more people from far away communities come to St. Catherine’s hospital to seek health care.

- Nigeria

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Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are the foundation of safe, effective healthcare facilities, impacting every facet of quality, dignified patient care. From handwashing and woundcare to nutrition and cleaning, WASH is essential to prevent the most pressing health challenges. Most of us expect basic water and sanitation such as drinking water, clean toilets and bathing areas, but in thousands of health care facilities around the world, these basics are an unreachable dream.

The Daughters of Charity are committed to addressing these issues through proven solutions like building handwashing stations, digging wells, installing water storage, and constructing toilets and latrines at health care facilities around the world.

FY23 Achievements

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Healthcare Facilities

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Handwashing Stations

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Water and Collection Tanks

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Toilets and Latrines

Improved WASH for Nearly 75,000 People 21

Collaborations

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Ascension Graphics Center

Ascension Mail Room

Little Leaf Design

In FY23 DC IPS established a relationship with the Ascension Design and Print Shops. They were so enamored with the work of the DC Sisters that they offered to do all design and printing pro bono an approximate value of $25,000 of in-kind services.

DC IPS staff are now freed up from design work and envelope stuffing duties.

Our print jobs are looking more refined and polished, and we now have coded remittance envelopes to facilitate tracking gifts from each appeal.

The Ascension Mail Room works in conjunction with the Ascension Graphic Design/ Print Shop. Sending out our mailings has become almost effortless This is a pro bono service for us as well with an estimated in kind value of approximately $5,000 per year.

The DC IPS’s previous website was outdated. With some research we found Little Leaf Design and now have a fresh look along with more user-friendly navigation. The revision allows for easier updates and site maintenance by DC IPS staff. LLD introduced us to a company that offers free hosting for nonprofits, so we automatically saved $1,200.

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In FY23 the value of WEFTA in-kind services was $66,068.

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Communication Initiatives Website DC IPS revitalized our website in Spring 2023. A major impetus for this update was the ability to communicate better with our audience. Several applications in the original design of the site were out of date which caused technical challenges and made the regular updating of information laborious and sometimes even crashed the site. We can now easily update project information and even show the progression of funds raised. From being introduced to a new collaborator, Little Leaf Designs, who expertly guided us through the process at a very reasonable price, to the ease of updating the site for DC IPS staff, the fresh new website is an all-around improvement in communications.

Social Media In FY23 DC IPS began weekly social media posts on Facebook and LinkedIn that synced up with our quarterly appeals, highlighted grant evaluation testimonials, and aligned with special days like World Water Day and Migrant/ Refugee Day. This regular regiment of posting has resulted in the following statistics: 25,980 impressions on LinkedIn, and 2,311 followers on Facebook.

We will track these data points as we remain committed to this addition to our communications strategy.

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DC IPS eBlasts

St. Damien of Molokai Parish

DC IPS sends out both Christmas and Easter eBlast emails annually to all our contacts. It’s an opportunity to develop stronger relationships with donors, foundations, vendors and Sisters. We are consistently blessed by the creativity and love in the responses we receive.

A Daughters of Charity school in Pontiac, Michigan promoted a Penny Drive to support a current WASH project. The school is in an impoverished community, yet the children and their parents raised $999 to help bring clean water to a community in Ethiopia.

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While celebrating Christ’s resurrection, observe how all your hopes are resurrected as well. Our Lord is looking out for us because we are Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Blessed Easter. - Sr. A.

GLOBE

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The GLOBE program at St John’s University in New York City works with DC IPS to offer microloans for entrepreneurs in four countries. In FY23 they chose a DC IPS WASH project in Ethiopia and developed a crowd funding campaign. In only a few weeks, the students raised over $4,500 by dividing into finance, marketing, and technology teams to raise awareness and promote the project.

Vatican Webinar On June 1, 2023, Sister Mary Louise was a part of a WASH webinar under the leadership of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. This well attended, virtual meeting served as an opportunity for multiple partners to share their successes and lessons on WASH initiatives.

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Mexico - Refugee Shelter

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They often arrive with only what they can carry and without having eaten for days. … With the project’s help, we can continue to receive them and provide food, medical care, hygiene items, clothing and shoes, allowing them to rest and recover to continue on their journey. ... They appreciate the care, companionship and support.

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“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me into your home. I was naked and you gave me clothes” - Matthew 25:35-36

Albania - Medicines for the Poor

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This project is very important at this time for our mission, because the poverty in our country has become deeper, that’s why people see the medication project as God’s extended hand for them and their families. Therefore, they have the opportunity to buy food and other things instead of medicines.

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This medicines project has created a network collaboration to care for the poorest of the poor

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Ethiopia - Water Project for School & Clinic

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Before, water came to us once a week and we collected water in containers.

We would buy water from water trucks almost every day for the school, laboratory clinic and provincial house. Now, it is a miracle every time we open the tap. Life changed overnight.

We have a small garden, school classrooms are washed, offices are clean, and children can flush toilets because of the generosity of funders and those who are concerned with how we live.

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1800 5000 students

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a Learning for Humanity (L4H), a Medicines for Humanity project, is a customized, online learning experience created for Catholic Sisters and their staff.

Cambodia - Urban Families Project

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The children of the poor and disadvantaged are being given a chance to succeed through the work of the Sisters and staff. This is the key to a better future for the children. Children are given early childhood development skills which are vital for future learning.

The Sisters provide basic education and additional tutoring for the children who come to the centers.

Many would stop attending school without the assistance from the program. The Sisters also deliver supplemental food and medical assistance to families.

DC IPS is collaborating with L4H to assist local Sisters in building capacity, strengthening health systems and empowering communities. Ongoing education enables ongoing growth. DC IPS has committed to subsidizing fees for DC Sisters to enroll in L4H classes.

Available courses focus on training, skill-building, and mentoring for a variety of topics. Topics apply to work in healthcare, education, social work, poverty, and build skills in management and leadership. Thus far, DC Sisters have completed the Project Management, Health Care Management, Improving Nutrition Outcomes and Leadership courses.

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families received food, education, and micro enterprise training to improve their potential for better life.

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Communication with Sisters

DREAM Centers Meeting, Paris

At the annual DREAM Center meeting in Paris, we provide an update on DREAM Center projects. We also consolidate and submit information from each center about their issues of greatest concern.

General Councillor Quarterly Reports LouiseList

Emails are sent at least monthly to Sisters on a variety of topics.

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DC IPS sends a quarterly email report to each General Councillor with updates regarding active projects in their provinces.

VEP Quarterly Reports

DC Podcast In January 2023, Sister Mary Louise was interviewed on DC podcast, “In The Company of Charity.”

Season 5, Episode 9: International Project Services (IPS).

IPS is an organization of the Daughters of Charity International, founded “to assist Daughters of Charity in low-resourced countries carry out their mission of service to the poor.”

Starting in FY23, new VEP quarterly reporting was implemented with the Visitatrix, Econome, and PPC of each province.

DC IPS sends information on the status of their projects for which fundraising is ongoing as well as those currently being implemented. This report provides a reminder of upcoming grant evaluations (GERs) and asks for updates on Local Sister contact details. Since implementation, this report and subsequent communication with provincial leadership has reduced overdue GERs from 8 down to 1.

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Staff

C IPS Team during FY23 included: Sr. Louise, Executive Director; Kathleen Bissa, opmentThe and DCCommunications IPS Team during FY23 Manager; included: Sr. Wendy Mary Louise,Coodinator, Executive Director; Bissa, Administrative and Kathleen Krista Bernard Development and Communications Manager; den Garlick, Grant Writers. All team members Wendy Tatar, Administrative Coordinator; and ss-trained assistHayden each other.

Kristato Bernard, Garlick and Frances Saroki,

hybrid tool of database and calendar applicat This improvement provides our office a way t foundation parameters for improved creation of a useful hybrid tool of database and grant wr calendar applications.

This improvement providesapproac research and allows for a customized our office a way to search foundation parameters finding foundation opportunities that align wi for improved grant writing research and allows DC IPS model. forunique a customized approach for finding foundation

ithin our database program, AkoyaGO. Throughout this FY23, the team set goals to process, the Admin Coord has learned improve skills within our database program, AkoyaGO. Inskills this process, Admin Coordthe m Administrator whichthe has allowed has learned System Administrator skills which o makehaslarge strides in implementation and allowed the team to make large strides in zation.implementation The entire team is now more adeptteam at is and organization.

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Looking Ahead

Help us continue to Tell the Story through future projects funded.

The effectiveness of the Daughters of Charity throughout their 400 years has been due to their willingness to work within their community. It has alwyas been and continues to be the involvement and sharing of gifts and talents of sponsors, donors, and volunteers that make the programs and activities of the Sisters possible.

Help us continue to Tell the Story by funding future projects

The Sisters give their skills and their lives, but without resources, their efforts can stillThe falleffectiveness short. JoinofDC IPS in of Charity the Daughters supporting the many ministriesthroughout of DC Sisters around the their 400 years has been due to world. Their project applications towork us throughout the theircome desire to within their community.

It has always been and continues be the year and are added to our website.

We encourage you totovisit involvement and sharing of raising gifts and talents regularly review it and to see the new projects we're sponsors, donors, and volunteers that make funds for which we are raising offunds. the programs and activities of the Sisters As you’ve seen in these pages, possible. the needs are great. Any gift you

send will impact lives. You will reach across the miles in a Thethe Sisters give their skills God’s and their lives, chain of effective love. Join with Sisters to help but without resources, their efforts can still children.

fall short. Join DC IPS in supporting the many ministries of DC Sisters around the world. Their project applications come to us throughout the year and are added to our website. We encourage you to visit regularly to see the new projects we’re raising funds for.

As you’ve seen in these pages, the needs are great. Any gift you send will impact lives.

You will reach across the miles in a chain of effective love. Join with the Sisters to help God’s children. - Sister Mary Louise

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This poem was sent to DC IPS from a Sister who serves in the Tigray region of Ethiopia where for the past few years there was a gruesome civil war. Mercifully, there is now a peace accord.

May you be blessed by her heartfelt benediction to DC IPS donors.

Thank you for being our light during this time of darkness We always pray for your safety, peace and happiness May God offer you the fruit of your generosity and kindness Loving others and showing compassion is the mystery of success...

We love you and appreciate you for ever Your spirit is here with us together We remember you in our daily prayer May she shield you, Mary our mother, For the world is not fair As you are helping His people, may God become your helper May God Bless you

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“Love one another, bear with one another, support one another, and be united in the Spirit of God.” – St Vincent de Paul